Posted on 04/08/2016 5:58:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Pope Francis said Friday that Catholics should look to their own consciences more than Vatican rules to negotiate the complexities of sex, marriage and family life, demanding the church shift its emphasis from doctrine to mercy in confronting some of the thorniest issues facing the faithful.
In a major church document entitled “The Joy of Love,” Francis made no explicit change in church doctrine and upheld church teaching on the lifelong bond of marriage between a man and a woman.
But in selectively citing his predecessors and emphasizing his own teachings in strategically placed footnotes, Francis made innovative openings in pastoral practice for Catholics who civilly remarry and signaled that he wants nothing short of a revolution in the way priests guide Catholics. He said the church must no longer sit in judgment and “throw stones” at those who fail to live up to the Gospel’s ideals of marriage and family life. […]
On thorny issues such as contraception, Francis stressed that a couple’s individual conscience — not dogmatic rules imposed on them across the board — must guide their decisions and the church’s pastoral practice. “We have been called to form consciences, not replace to them,” he said. …
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The guy is not a priest. He is a full fledged left wing activist disguised in a white robe.
“Pope Francis said Friday that Catholics should look to their own consciences...”
My own conscience tells me the US should build a giant wall on our southern border.
Heretic.
Is the pope Catholic?
ummm, no he’s not.
This pope could be called “A man after Man’s own heart. “
He is worldly guy.
Mr. niteowl77
If you want trouble in your life; follow your heart.
Such a dork. He’s a mole, a plant, a usurper seeking to fundamentally change the Catholic church.
Same way our culture and government have been subverted. The PEOPLE did this by electing degenerates who will tell them their degeneracies are ok.
Plus the free stuff.
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.So important as to be written twice in the same book.
— Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25
"You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ … But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:5-9).
If this guy keeps going he’s going to put the annulment industry out of business.....
What the AP reports (especially the headline) about the pope’s comments upon the exhortation Amoris Laetitia, and the pope’s actual comments, are two different things. Typical MSM distortion and projection.
This document is Pope Francis’ unconditional surrender to the sexual revolution. While he has not gone so far as to attempt to impose infallibility on it, he has effectively repudiated the Church’s doctrine, and in so doing, put in question his own possession of the office.
If this report is not spin (and on that I have to say I have no trust in the media), then I wonder if Francis mentioned obedience to the “Ten Suggestions”.
During the Synod, we discussed the situation of families whose members include persons who experience same-sex attraction, a situation not easy either for parents or for children. We would like before all else to reaffirm that every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected in his or her dignity and treated with consideration, while ‘every sign of unjust discrimination’ is to be carefully avoided, particularly any form of aggression and violence. Such families should be given respectful pastoral guidance, so that those who manifest a homosexual orientation can receive the assistance they need to understand and fully carry out God’s will in their lives. …This stands in start contrast to 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
Haahaaahaaa The Pope is an idiot; most people don’t even have a conscience today. Everyone does what’s right in their own eyes.
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